tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post265329675023896139..comments2023-07-17T11:58:00.816-03:00Comments on What the kimchi???: Year 1 - Museums and FriendsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post-86886956772697703162010-03-26T02:36:33.293-03:002010-03-26T02:36:33.293-03:00Ajay
Awwww ... I never made anyone almost jealou...Ajay <br /><br />Awwww ... I never made anyone almost jealous before. It felt good. Now you burst my bubble. ;)<br /><br />She pulled the same stuff with the next teacher, yes an expat. And as soon as she stopped coming to our school the other teacher never heard from her again. Talk about fickle.<br /><br />When it comes to friends when single and when in a relationship or married we actually get treated the same as Koreans or better. <br /><br />I can't count the number of Koreans who were my "friend" but as soon as they got into a relationship you never heard from them again. Koreans complained about their friends doing it too. (Mind you some of those did the same thing later.) Then when they are getting married you suddenly hear from them to come to the wedding. Fickle.<br /><br />Sometimes because we are foreigners they will actually keep in touch with us but not their Korean friends. I found this was mainly for the English or bragging rights. "I have a foreign friend." Very fickle.Flinthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751432023350206246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post-78816216834533984362010-03-26T01:18:45.161-03:002010-03-26T01:18:45.161-03:00Flint,
Come on! I was just kidding on "going...Flint,<br /><br />Come on! I was just kidding on "going out". <br /><br />Korea, a conservative land as said by Koreans is what I was referring to. We all know the truth. :)<br /><br />I wonder what are the rules of "friendship" between two Koreans. I guess the other teacher that you were talking about was also an expatriate. Will that girl do the same to her Korean teacher(s)? <br /><br />"You should understand Korean culture" excuse - I love it. I think expats know more about Korean culture than the Koreans do. I hope one day we expats collaborate to produce "The Real Culture of Korea".Ajaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post-57115249684255409952010-03-26T00:41:58.774-03:002010-03-26T00:41:58.774-03:00Ajay
Well, I was and I wasn't. It wasn't ...Ajay<br /><br />Well, I was and I wasn't. It wasn't anything romantic. It was for fun only. :) As I have said from Day 1, I didn't come here for a wife or gf. I came here for a change in life, a job, and the chance to experience Asia. <br /><br />Many of them were students too. Something I was going to address later was students like YunJong. I found with many students as long as you are their teacher they are your "friend". As soon as they take a class with another teacher you are nothing. <br /><br />YunJong was like that. The months I was her teacher we went out a lot. With others and alone. The day she took a class with a different teacher she stopped talking to me. We had plans to meet and she didn't show.<br /><br />I don't understand the mentality. She went to the school I taught at. Of course I would see her in the hallway and ask what the fuck was up. She actually didn't think I would. That is when she "explained" to me that I must understand Korean culture. She isn't my student now so she can't spend any time with me. She has to spend it with the new teacher. I don't think she understood why I started laughing at her and walked out of the room laughing. Her "explanation" was just so ludicrous and shallow. What else could you do other than call her a ricetard?<br /><br />Since then I have encountered more than a few adult students like that. <br /><br />I still have NO FUCKING IDEA how Korea is a Conservative country. I will have to write a post about it one day but I would love for someone to explain to me in what way Korea is conservative. Unless xenophobia and racism make you conservative.Flinthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751432023350206246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post-79801888656549421772010-03-26T00:19:19.660-03:002010-03-26T00:19:19.660-03:00Flint,
You seem to be "going out" with ...Flint,<br /><br />You seem to be "going out" with gazillions of Korean women in the first year. Ah....why am I getting jealous? <br /><br />It's sad to know that men and women cheat, surreptitiously of course, in a conservative land and are eager to take a moral high ground in blaming "decadent West" when it comes to relationships. <br /><br />I have always felt that people in West, who are generally blamed for lax morals, put a great deal of an effort to make relationships work and try to stay "more" committed in a relationship. Call me naive but I've had several such encounters back home.Ajaynoreply@blogger.com